Tech High School - Tehisean Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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MID-YEAR GRADUATION EXERCISES FEBRUARY 1945 P R O G R A M Presiding . . ........ . Ira jarrell Superintendent of Schools l. Music . ....... Tech High Concert Band J. S. Rutan, Director 2. Processional March Honor Legion . . . . Carrol H. Vmce 5. Alma Mater Song . . Class, Audience and Band 4. Invocation ........... Rev. Gerald Y. Smith Principal of Hoke Smith junior High School 5. Oration ........... Wm. Rowe Shelnutt, jr. The Catastrophe of Waste 6. Emperor Valse . ...... . 'Iobann Slrauss Band 7. Valedictory . ........ . Harry T. Schutte When Liberty Is Limited 8. The Premier Polka .......... Edward Uewellyn Cornet Soloist . . Bill Wright, jr., Band President 9. Announcement of Distinctions ........ W. O. Cheney Principal of Tech High School 10. Pledge to the Flag led by Cadet Colonel Wm. R. Shelnutt, jr. ll. America .............. Henry Carey Class, Audience and Band 12. Presentation of Diplomas ...... . D. M. Therrell Member Board of Education 13. Tech High Battle Song .......... H. A. Taylor Class, Audience and Band, Led by H. A. Taylor, Composer

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Seniofz 0 a-44 pfmpfaeay Notwithstanding my complete satisfaction of the fact that Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee is completely a work of fiction, strange thoughts buzzed through my head one evening as I laid the book down and prepared for bed. That story is iust full of bull, I mumbled to myself, if anyone can get conked on the head and immediately be trans- posed back to the past, it would be equally easy for some fellow to get tapped on the top and live in the future. And that, I told myself, is certainly ridiculous! Being very tired of a hard day at the pool hall, I dropped off to slumber land very quickly and was soon dreaming of such wonderful things as an A in physics two, a diploma with a Delta Theta Kappa sealg peanuts at a Student Council meet- ing, and a low score of 69 in golf. I was awakened soon, however, by someone shaking me and telling me to get up. I opened my eyes just long enough for a bucket of sand to fall out, and recognized, much to my amazement, MARVIN WALLACE standing at my bedside. Well, get up! Just don't lie there! As long as you have nothing else to do, you may as well fly me to work in your helicopterg mine's in the shop! His chatter was, of course, supposedly making sense to me, but for some reason it just wasn't! He persuaded me to get up, dress, and climb into some ridiculous-looking machine he kept calling a helicopter. Surprisingly enough, I knew how to operate the thing, so we started off. Once we were in the air, he told me to head for Washington, D. C., where he had a job publishing a new type of spelling book for grammar schools all over the nation. I learned from him that he was also appearing on Information Please along with EDGAR GILLETTE, EUGENE NEW, ROBERT DURDEN, ROBERT ZWALD and WILLIAM C. HENRY. On arriving in Washington, I bade Wallace goodbye and started out in the city to see the sights. After having a bit of breakfast C'Big Mama HARRISON, of course, was the cookj, I bought a newspaper and was astounded to learn that the date was June 3, 1975. Gad! I must be 48 years old! The headlines told all about a hot presidential race between HARRY SCHUTTE and LAMAR SHEATS. SCHU'I'I'E was on the Communistic party, of course, while SHEATS was representing the Socialists. The paper had articles concerning the fact that more liquor was being sold in the country than ever before, because no matter who won the race, the country would be in such a mess, nobody wanted to stay sober. I also read an editorial about GUY HITCHCOCK, who was working on a terrific idea about abolishing all liquor stores and night clubs. Moving on up the street, I met TOM HARTLEY taking a poll in the city to determine how many left-handed persons also had blue eyes. He was not riding in a helicopter but was riding JACK PEEK piggy-back, which is considered the fastest type of transportation possible. HARTLEY told me about CHAR LES D. RAY who was working on a universal idea to de- velop a rocket ship that would be faster than any thing in the world, except, of course, STERLING HORNSBY. I passed by a sign which read, Ye Pastime Pool Hall-BUCK DAVIS, Instructor and Proprietor. MARSHALL CALLAWAY-shark. Further on up the way I saw a smoke shop which read, Ye Smoke Gets in Ye Eyesey, Weed Shoppe- HUBERT BIESER, manager, lndorsement by Col. Poole. Across the street was a locksmith's shop with a sign out front reading, Keys made to order-EDDIE REEVES, Man- ager. I was attracted at that time by HOWARD GOSSET'I' coming up the way with his NASS key dangling at his side. He told me he was making his living running the wagon, and that he had finally graduated from Tech High. He also told me that things had changed to such an extent that even IRVIE WILLIAMS and BILL MORRIS had finally gotten out. He said that ARNOLD Q. SIMPKINS was currently working in the bowery taking up collections for welfare and that he was never very successful. GENE BLANKENSHIP went past about that time, pulling so hard on his pipe that six men fainted upstairs in the pool hall and fell out the window. Among them were JOHN KEOWN, BILL STINSON, and KEITH ENGLAND. KEN HAR- ALSON, who happened to be passing, saw the whole thing an-d decided it would make a good cartoon, so he rushed off to sketch. An extra came out on the street telling about the fire destroying the White House, and that HARRISON ALLEN, world- famous architect was to construct the new one. I A fire wagon went past, followed by JACK BANTA chasing it, and pasting pictures and senior write-ups at the same time. Deciding to go home, I headed for the parking lot, which was being run by JACK PATTERSON and BILL RABUN, Cwho were thinking up blood-curdling ideas for an initiation.J They told me that BILL SHELNUT had been voted the stin- giest man in the world, second only to REX EDMONDSON. . It must have been the shock of hearing my own name that sent me into a spasm. A lad, whom I recognized atpnce by his smiles as TOMMIE BARCROFT brought me out of it and told me that TOMMY RUTLAND was making his living pos- ing for the Gillette Razor Blades Company as an example of five o'clock shadow. He said, too, that AL LACOUR had been voted the wolf of the century, and that DOUGLAS DURHAM was suffering from too much work, as he was a pencil-sharpener in a fountain pen factory. CHARLIE WALSTON came along about that time and told me of his being K. P. for ten straight years, and that he had at last grown tired of throwing acorns at Mr. Metcalf. He said that HARRY COLE and LEON KIMMEL were trying each ' - from country other to see which one could charge the other one the most Hi-Y dues, and that ED. F. CHANDLER was going to country with KENNETH DAVIS making orations. It was then that I happened to roll over too near the edge, fell off, hit my head on the safe where keep ?ydgBa?0ll:- pons, and woke up. It had all been a dream, I was actually still in Atlanta, in 1945, and was still going to e g It may have been a dream, but nevertheless a most realistic one, and I shouldn't be at all surprised to see it all happfn to the class of 1945. I-R-E 45

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CANDIDATES FGR FEBRUARY GRADUATION james D. Adams Gene Bryson Blankenship Dan Wiseman Blanton Carl Eugene Bledsoe john Becker Boatenreiter Daniel William Boone, Jr. Edward Aven Bowen Bill Cliff Brannon Samuel Marvin Briscoe Dennis Wesley Britt Carl Gilbert Butterworth Eddie Gilbert Chandler, jr. Bryson Young Coleman, jr. Robert joseph Cowan Grady Randolph Curfman Richard Marion Dailey joseph Madison Daniel George Wilson Davis, Jr. Rhea Wesley Dean Howard Andrew Gossett Robert Edward Gruber Robert Harold Harbuck George Wilson Harper Lamar Alexander Harper James Gray Harriman Thomas A. Hartley, jr. jack I. Hazan Marcus Aurelius Helms, jr. William Callaway Henry Carl Aven Hightower William Wallace Hill james Guy Hitchcock, jr. William Preston Holley, jr. Roy Briscoe Holt julian Greenlee Irwin,Jr. Lonnie Dewitt Jobe,jr. Dewey William Kinsey Jack Wesley Kitchens Bobby Joe Knight Albert Franklin Knowles Fred Byron Kutchenreiter John William Lummus, jr. Ernest Franklin McCormick, Jr Lamar McGarity Charles Clarence McHugh, jr. Stevie Andrew Soos Miller Nels Richard Nelson Baynard. Pinson Nix Roy Embree Patillo George William Patton, jr. jack William Peek jerry Louis Poss Frank Pete Poulos Lewis Wilton Puckett Byron Levere Rambo Walter Francis Rogers, Jr. St. Clair Leslie Salvant, Jr. Donald Jack Sawyer Harry Theodore Schutte William Rowe Shelnutt, jr. Paul Gorman Sheppard, Jr. Arnold Orman Simpkins Joseph Wells Slade, Jr. john Franklin Smith Charles Marion Sorrow james Edward Spinks Marion Paul Stovall,Jr. Leonard Duckett Terry, Jr. joseph Norman Thomas William Merrill Thomas, Jr. Walter Leon Van Nostrand William Robert Vollenweider Lewis Gerald Wallace Charles Durwood Walston Comer Clark Warren, jr. Albert Ben Watson Carl Barnes Whitaker Irvie Burdette Williams, Jr. Bill Jay Wright, jr. Mack Quillian Yarbrough MEN IN THE SERVICE AND ESSENTIAL WAR JOBS WHO HAVE RECEIVED THEIR DIPLOMAS THIS SEMESTER Frank Russell Bathgate Ralph Bell James Allen Caldwell John Duncan Cameron George Felma Conger Henry Floyd Ham Jack Linwood Howard Howard Jack james Joseph Jardina,-lr. Cecil Myers Kennedy Maurie Wade Shields Albert Elliott Simmons, jr. Floyd Abbott Turner John W. Williamson George Donald King Howard Oliver Latty Harley Pyron Rakestraw Whitley M. Roberts David Davenport Norman Douglas Gibson Sidney Peckham Howe Allen Dean Tuck Carl Floyd Weekes Norris Stovall Wynne